If we were to place as much emphasis on monitoring events that take place on our IT systems as we do monitoring spending habits and shoplifting, many of the data breaches we hear about today could be largely mitigated.

With each passing year, it seems that newly-uncovered hacks and the number of users impacted grow larger and larger. One big prediction for 2017 that we haven’t seen come true yet is that we'll have a new major breach.

Cyber Monday kicked off a month of great deals for consumers and high profits for online retailers. Unfortunately, this time of the year also offers hackers different ways to launch cyber-attacks, steal information, and compromise devices.